Moraspirit is dedicated towards leveraging University Sports in Sri Lanka to the highest of standards through up-to-date reporting of sporting events and rendering appropriate recognition and resources to create world class sportsmen and sportswomen.

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Eight years ago on the 25th of September a great concept was born in the land of University of Moratuwa by the hands of two pioneers, Dilanka Jayasundara and Heminda Jayaweera. They named their new creation as “MoraSpirit - Empowering University Sports”. Together with Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Shelan Perera and Thiagarajah Selvamoorthy, the president of the Sports Council in 2009, they raised MoraSpirit with the vision of inspiring university students in sports and uplifting the standards of university sports in Sri Lanka.

The Inter-University Basketball Games are off to a wonderful start this weekend at the Peradeniya University premises. The brothering universities around the country gathered at the Pera gymnasium to secure seats for the upcoming basketball matches. The preliminary rounds were held in four groups A, B, C and D for both men and women, and the champions of each group rose above for the quarterfinals and semifinals that coloured the gymnasium today.

Inter University Football Championship -2017 was commenced with a glamourous opening ceremony hosted by Uva Wellassa University. Many dignitaries were present including the Vice Chancellor of UWU as the players decorated the parade representing their respective universities. At the end of day-2 University of Jaffna, University of Moratuwa, University of Peradeniya and University of Sri Jayawardanepura were able to qualify for the play-offs.

Inter University Football Championship – 2017 will be under way tomorrow onwards at Winston Dias Stadium, Badulla. This time the tournament is hosted by Uva Wellassa University which will be worked off on 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September, 2017. Almost all the teams have arrived to Badulla to see the harvest of their hard work, dedication and commitment of past 12 months.

Wrestling has been derived from survival fighting that were prevalent during ancient days where two opponents engage in a weaponless combat to clench the victory and the wrestler who manages to remain alive or the one who succeed in killing or doing a major injury to the other party is taken as the medalist. IUGs 2017 is about to happen and players might come up against formidable opponents at the University Games as they excite the competition. We invite all the wrestling lovers to gather at the gymnasium of University of Kelaniya on 29th and 30th of September to witness this battle.